Buckle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER L. GARIEPEE, OF MILTON, VERMONT.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,511,dated December30, 1890.

Application filed September 8, 1890. Serial No. 364,228. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER L. GARIEPEE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milton, in the county of Ohittenden and State of Vermont,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Buckles;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,

that is adapted to a single draft-harness as well as to the many otheruses to which this class of buckles are especially designed; and

it consists in the details of construction, substantially as shown inthe drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A B represent the two sections whichcompose the buckle, the latter section having the removable bar l, theformer section consisting of the base-plate 0, having holes a. forattaching the buckle to the strap of the harness. This base-plate abovedescribed forms a brace to the buckle, and materially increases itsstrength, which is considered of material importance in heavydraft-harness, the plate also forming a strengthening-support for theside bars I), which are cast with the plate. The side bars bterminate inloops 0 d for the straps of the harness, and extending from the sides ofthe bars, respectively, are double loops cf and single loop 9, thedouble loop being for the thill-strap and belly-band.

The base-plate O has slots h at the junction of said strap and the sidebars I) to receive the section B of the buckle, which I term the claspportion of the buckle, and may be constructed in anysuitable manner, butpreferably as shown.

The base-plate O has crossbar 2', from which projects the tongue or studk of the buckle.

The double loops e f are arranged on the opposite sides, dependingentirely as to whether the buckle is aleft or a right hand buckle.

There may be many changes in the minor details of construction, so longas such changes come within ordinary mechanical skill, and therefore Ireserve the right to modify such parts of the buckle as necessitydemands, providing the principal of the invention is not aitectedthereby.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a harness-buckle, the combinationof the section 13, having the removable cross-bar Z, with the section A,the latter having baseplate 0 with side bars I), the latter extendingout beyond the plate and terminating in loops 0 d, the single loop g anddouble loops ef, extending out from .the side bars, and the stud ortongue 7.: and slots h, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

PETER L. GARI EPEE.

\Vitnesses:

SABIN D. RANKIN, AARON B. STORY.

